Nilfanion wrote:
I hate to bring up what I know is a repeating drag on the project, but our most important sub-project (COM:TOL of course) advocates removal of content categorisation from useful imagery. I think this misrepresents the broader lack of consensus on the issue - nevermind that its contrary to what I think should be done.
I'd like to see the project brought to heel and just use the usual "keep image in most precise category" methodology. The totally different method is harmful to the project (merely by being different) and by its existence is causing confusion at best (like what I'm reporting now) and downright antagonism at worst.
In fact as far as I can tell *lots* of effort is being wasted by some users doing one thing (according to the TOL rule) and some doing the exact opposite. Is there any way we can get this mess over and done with?
Well, you could start by dropping the escalating verbiage, like "brought to heel". :-)
As I'm sure you know, various people have proposed solutions, and they've all been shot down, in many cases by the vociferous objection of one person or another. Given the small number of people participating (while lots of people upload TOL images, far fewer try to organize them), that has always seemed indicative of a lack of consensus, and so nothing changes. It's not clear that pushing a preferred solution via the mailing list is going to somehow create consensus where none exists now.
For myself, after a certain point the arguing starts to demotivate, so I go back to working on my backlog instead, and watch bemused as people ceaselessly move my images around. They only completely delink them once in a while. :-)
Stan